Jaroslav Svarc

Jaroslav Svarc (11 May 1914-18 June 1942) was a Czechoslovakian soldier who took part in Operation Anthropoid in 1942.

Biography
Jaroslav Svarc was born in Velky Ujezd, Moravia, Austria-Hungary (present-day Czech Republic) in 1914, and he worked as a confectioner before joining the Czechoslovakian army in 1936. In January 1940, he fled from Nazi occupation and arrived in France, where he joined the army-in-exile. Svarc participated in the Battle of France and was nearly taken prisoner, and he was trained as a parachutist in the United Kingdom. In 1942, he was dropped into the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and he failed in an assassination attempt on collaborator Emanuel Moravec in "Operation Tin" after being injured while hitting the ground. Instead, he hid at the Church of Saints Cyril and Methodius in Prague with other Czechoslovak Resistance fighters, and he was killed during the Cyril and Methodius Church siege on 18 June 1942. He was posthumously decapitated, and his head was kept in a crime museum.